Canon 6D, do I need to worry about having hot/dead pixels from day one?

Canon 6D, do I need to worry about having hot/dead pixels from day one?

Dec 13, 2013

Coming from a Nikon D90 that I recently sold in order to move to full frame I am a bit nerous about having hot/dead pixels from day 1. They developed over time with the D90, had Nikon remap it for nice chump of change, $200, only to find new ones develop less than a year later.

I really liked the camera but this issue and the noise at higher ISO has made me sell it and currently I am looking at either Sony A7 or Canon 6d. I like the 6D with its wifi and GPS, high ISO, low light focus capacility while the Sony offers a small size, almost as good IQ and built in re-mapping of hot/dead pixels.

So for you 6D owners have you had hot/dead pixelks from day 1 or had them develop over time since you bought the camera last year? I know that you will get some hot ones when you go real high in ISO but I am talking about the 400-16oo range, not 6400-25k.

Coming from a Nikon D90 that I recently sold in order to move to full frame I am a bit nerous about having hot/dead pixels from day 1. They developed over time with the D90, had Nikon remap it for nice chump of change, $200, only to find new ones develop less than a year later.

I really liked the camera but this issue and the noise at higher ISO has made me sell it and currently I am looking at either Sony A7 or Canon 6d. I like the 6D with its wifi and GPS, high ISO, low light focus capacility while the Sony offers a small size, almost as good IQ and built in re-mapping of hot/dead pixels.

So for you 6D owners have you had hot/dead pixelks from day 1 or had them develop over time since you bought the camera last year? I know that you will get some hot ones when you go real high in ISO but I am talking about the 400-16oo range, not 6400-25k.

Coming from a Nikon D90 that I recently sold in order to move to full frame I am a bit nerous about having hot/dead pixels from day 1. They developed over time with the D90, had Nikon remap it for nice chump of change, $200, only to find new ones develop less than a year later.

I really liked the camera but this issue and the noise at higher ISO has made me sell it and currently I am looking at either Sony A7 or Canon 6d. I like the 6D with its wifi and GPS, high ISO, low light focus capacility while the Sony offers a small size, almost as good IQ and built in re-mapping of hot/dead pixels.

So for you 6D owners have you had hot/dead pixelks from day 1 or had them develop over time since you bought the camera last year? I know that you will get some hot ones when you go real high in ISO but I am talking about the 400-16oo range, not 6400-25k.

Also appreciate any other thoughts.

Thanks

I've had no problems with mine. However, even if I did, it's only 1/20000000th of the image area, so I'm sure I could live with it using Lightroom to automatically clone them out. I'm sure Canon would map them out under warranty for the first 12 months.

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With any camera, you should not be overly concerned. However, it doesn't hurt to check this out.

When I got the 6D, I did the lens cap test. If there were any issues, I could return the unit. There were no dead pixels. There were some minor hot pixels. If I recall correctly, it was like <20 pixels with slightly higher signal. It was much better than D7000, which was pretty good too.

I have used 6D for 9 months. I have no noticed anything in real usage. I have not done any lens cap testing, and I do not want to. Unless it is something I can see in photo, I don't want to go looking for issues that I cannot see. And there is nothing I can do now, other than to ship to Canon for mapping.